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Lucija Blaževski
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PhD Candidate at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience.

Studying good and bad sleep. Interested in consciousness, (hyper)arousal, and interoception.
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n41c0.bsky.social
well on time for my bi-yearly post I'm sharing the final version of this very cool work we started with @cjungerius.bsky.social @smfleming.bsky.social @svangaal.bsky.social @fahrenfort.bsky.social in 2021, when I was young and full of hope. Now out in @natcomms.nature.com 1/11
The act of detecting a stimulus contaminates measures of conscious experience with decision biases - Nature Communications
A central challenge in consciousness research is determining whether people truly experience a stimulus. Here, the authors show that context biases traditional detection measures, whereas continuous r...
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July 21, 2026 at 1:51 PM
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randolph-helfrich.bsky.social
New paper in @pnas.org #Neuroskyence

The brain state during general anesthesia looks like hybrid of sleep and coma. We also identify distinct neural patterns that are unique to anesthesia using #EEG

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www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

@yale.edu @wutsaiyale.bsky.social @yaleschoolofmed.bsky.social
May 13, 2026 at 1:38 PM
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svangaal.bsky.social
Just out! Expectations modulate stimulus-evoked recurrent, but not feedforward, processing, and this is attention-dependent. NMDA-dependent feedback specifically supports perceptual integration (illusory contours), rather than mediating expectations (base rate). www.jneurosci.org/content/46/1...
Effects of Expectation, Attention, and NMDA Receptor Blockade on Feedforward and Feedback Processing
Perception is increasingly viewed as an inferential process wherein sensory inputs are integrated with prior expectations. We employed time-resolved decoding on electroencephalography (EEG) data ( n  ...
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April 7, 2026 at 2:54 PM
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matthiasnau.bsky.social
Just published my "Programming for Psychologists" course! 👩‍💻 github.com/Naubody/prog...

Designed for Psychology & Cognitive Neuroscience Master's students starting their programming journey at @vuamsterdam.bsky.social.

Feel free to share! Feedback welcome!
November 24, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social
Sensory processing sensitivity: theory, evidence, and directions

Review by Corina Greven, MacKenzie Trupp (@mactrupp.bsky.social), Judith Homberg, & Heleen Slagter (@haslagter.bsky.social)

Free access before Dec 23: tinyurl.com/43y9yzcb
November 13, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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annaciaunica.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Time, space, memory and brain–body rhythms - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
Understanding how the brain represents experienced time and how representations of space and time are integrated to form episodic memories has been a goal of much neuroscientific research. In this Per...
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November 14, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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eikofried.bsky.social
Four interesting methods & stats winter courses at Leiden University also open to researchers and PhD candidates who are not affiliated with us.

www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/social-be...
November 10, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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n41c0.bsky.social
it is time to make my biyearly post because I put a preprint out🎉🍾😀. we (w/ @svangaal.bsky.social, Z. van den Hurk, @timostein.bsky.social & @fahrenfort.bsky.social) attempted to replicate a classic unconscious priming study by Vorberg et al. (2003) using a single-subject Bayesian approach.
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November 7, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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🌙 Early-career sleep researchers & clinicians: Share your challenges attending Sleep Europe conferences!

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⏱️ A few minutes
📅 Deadline: Nov 22
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October 15, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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labnir.bsky.social
Aperiodic EEG Activity Provides a Linear, Bidirectional, and Spatially Uniform Marker of Subjective and Objective Vigilance in Humans, Both Within and Across States www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Aperiodic EEG Activity Provides a Linear, Bidirectional, and Spatially Uniform Marker of Subjective and Objective Vigilance in Humans, Both Within and Across States
Vigilance is increasingly conceived as a continuum, ranging from full alertness to deep sleep. Despite its fundamental role in cognition, behaviour, and health, reliable physiological markers of vigil...
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September 9, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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vladaaslanov.bsky.social
Happy to share the first project of my PhD at #ASSC28, on how voluntary strategies modulate the reading response and how this relates to suggestibility and metacognitive efficiency.

Appreciation to my collaborators, and to @fahrenfort.bsky.social for his support and supervision on this project.
July 7, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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svangaal.bsky.social
We show that memantine selectively improves neural decoding of attended illusory Kanizsa triangles, revealing NMDA receptor-dependent enhancement of feedback processing.

elifesciences.org/articles/100...

Thanks to Samuel Noorman @fahrenfort.bsky.social @timostein.bsky.social Jasper Zantvoord
A causal role of the NMDA receptor in recurrent processing during perceptual integration
Memantine selectively improves neural decoding of attended illusory contours, revealing NMDA receptor-dependent enhancement of feedback processing in human visual perception.
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June 25, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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nin-knaw.bsky.social
Nieuwe stage vacature! 🧠 🛌

Ben jij geïnteresseerd in de werkingsmechanismes van slapeloosheid? De Sleep & Cognition-groep is op zoek naar een enthousiaste en gedreven stagiair(e).

Lees hier meer 👇 herseninstituut.nl/stages/maste...
Masterstage bij de Sleep & Cognition-groep - Nederlands Herseninstituut - KNAW | Master the mind
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May 28, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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sergedumoulin.net
Writing a scientific paper or thesis? Over the years, I’ve gathered my favorite practical writing tips. I hope you find them helpful!

Check them out: dlwiki.nin.nl/Writing_and_...

#AcademicWriting #SciComm #WritingTips 🖊️🧪 🧠
Scientific writing tips
In scientific writing clarity is of utmost importance. Thoughts on writing, including figures, to get your results published - and reach your audience!
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May 27, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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n41c0.bsky.social
Very happy this is finally out 🎉. In this paper, we show that conf. reports are biased by a visual illusion, an asymmetrical base rate and a payoff scheme. Crucially, we show that only the visual illusion affects subj. experience, suggesting decision bias leaks onto confidence reports.
May 22, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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stijnnuiten.bsky.social
⚠️ Come see our new preprint, in which we (@degeelab.bsky.social, Jasper Zantvoord, @psterzer.bsky.social, @fahrenfort.bsky.social & @svangaal.bsky.social) show that phasic (task-evoked) and tonic (baseline) arousal distinctly shape human decision bias! (1/6)

dx.doi.org/10.21203/rs....
Phasic and tonic arousal distinctly shape human decision bias
Neuroscientific theories hypothesize that arousal fluctuations influence human perception and behavior in two functionally distinct ways: through variations in baseline state (tonic arousal) and by tr...
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May 19, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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neurosteven.bsky.social
I am so happy—this is the first 1st author paper I have written, since the cancer diagnosis of my late wife seven years ago.
📑 PAPER ALERT: "Beyond binding: from modular to natural vision" in Trends in Cognitive Sciences (2025) sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
April 14, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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bsrlaboratory.bsky.social
Pupil size reveals arousal level fluctuations in human sleep
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Pupil size reveals arousal level fluctuations in human sleep - Nature Communications
Arousal levels regulate sleep, but accurate noninvasive measures are lacking. Here, a novel method is introduced to track pupil-indexed arousal levels during human sleep, revealing pupil size changes ...
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March 1, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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neurosteven.bsky.social
1/5 New study challenges modular view of visual processing! academic.oup.com/brain/advanc... Analysis of 307 stroke patients shows mid-level visual processing are distributed across neural networks rather than confined to specific brain regions.
Visual feature processing in a large stroke cohort: evidence against modular organization
Visual features form a crucial stage between sensory input and higher-level object recognition. The conventional model of visual processing posits that qua
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January 14, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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thomasandrillon.bsky.social
Our review on *Local Sleep* is finally out!

We cover the emerging notion that sleep can be a local brain phenomenon across wakefulness and sleep.
And the consequences for cognition and consciousness.

Check it out!
tinyurl.com/bdh64ck3
What is sleep exactly? Global and local modulations of sleep oscillations all around the clock
Wakefulness, non-rapid eye-movement (NREM) and rapid eye-movement (REM) sleep differ from each other along three dimensions: behavioral, phenomenologi…
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November 15, 2023 at 8:08 PM
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biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social
Non-REM parasomnia experiences share EEG correlates with dreams https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.11.10.565325v1
Non-REM parasomnia experiences share EEG correlates with dreams https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.11.10.565325v1
Sleepwalking and related parasomnias result from sudden and incomplete awakenings out of slow wave s
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November 14, 2023 at 11:15 PM
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raquellondon.bsky.social
In today's EEG newsletter I share our MNE tutorials from the Cutting Gardens 2023 conference:

tinyurl.com/bdf49j2z

We covered Pre-processing, Machine Learning and the HMP toolbox for discovering cognitive stages (very cool).

Also many new vacancies. Have fun!

#EEG #neuroskyence #Neuroscience
19 - Machine learning for cognitive neuroscience
Tutorials from the Cutting Gardens 2023 conference - Ghent edition
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November 7, 2023 at 1:11 PM
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n41c0.bsky.social
my first paper ever is out now in PNAS 🎉🔥!! (⁠ ⁠ꈍ⁠ᴗ⁠ꈍ⁠) (w/ Simon van Gaal, @juliaha.bsky.social, @smfleming.bsky.social and @fahrenfort.bsky.social) we introduced a novel method to distinguish between effects in subjective experience from effects in decision-making. let me know what you think!
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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October 26, 2023 at 9:42 AM